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“Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.”
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“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects.”
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“The long-forgotten silence sounded like music I’d never heard before.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“I am one of those cogs, going round and round. I have become a functioning part of the world, rotating in the time of day called morning.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“So the manual for life already existed. It was just that it was already ingrained in everyone’s heads, and there wasn’t any need to put it in writing. The specific form of what is considered an “ordinary person” had been there all along, unchanged since prehistoric times I finally realized.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
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